Excel DLLs (.xll) in Wine or Willows or Bochs or ...

[Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira]

        Hi Debian users,
        my boss at work have to run a simulation into Excel that uses a DLL of 
Excel (.xll). The problem is that the simulation will take too long (about 7 
years) and he couldn't put this kind of thing to run in Windowze because it 
could go into GPF and loss the entire simulation.
        He asked me if it's possible to run Excel into Linux and the simulation 
too. I thinked that Wine can do that? But I didn't play with Wine before 
because I am very happy with my Linux box (100% Microsoft free). But I'm 
curious. Is that possible with Wine?
        Can anyone give me some hints or share experiences?
        Have a nice day,                        Paulo Henrique